I would be interested in the evidence that my noble Romans did read
for themselves in the way that scholars like Pliny (and Cicero and
Caesar) obviously did, and schoolboys. I am still unpacking my books
from moving into retirement and can't find the recent CQs. Perhaps I
will find the evidence
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:16 +0100 (BST)
From: Don Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Robert Dyer wrote (inter much very interesting alia):
I suspect that
the Roman nobility seldom read texts for themselves, but listened to
their slaves.
There is massive evidence from all
